Tutorial Faculty Syllabi
Kathleen Skerrett organized her 2002 tutorial "Ideas of Love in Western Culture" by focusing on the skills each unit focused on -- reading, writing, information literacy, presenting, discussing.
Chris Hunter's 2008 tutorial "Community Organizing: Empowering People, Effecting Change" used a series of short papers with required rewrites, oral presentations, and a mix of assignments including reflection, description, evaluation or readings, and collaborative group projects.
Sarah Purcell's 2002 tutorial on American Memorials combined academic resources with field trips, examination of objects in Grinnell, music, web presentations and film.
Janet Davis's 2008 tutorial, Technology and Place: Transportation, Communication, Computation, used both formal and informal writing and revision as well as an "anatomy of a research paper" and various presentations to develop students' writing and research skills.
Erik Simpson's tutorial, Comedy, includes six class days devoted entirely to writing workshops; a class blog; a focus on the liberal arts education; writing and oral presentations that culminate in a portfolio; and a plan-poll list of answers to the question "What do you wish your tutorial professor had told you?"
Other Tutorial Syllabi
- Decline and Renewal in the Heartland (Jon Andelson, Fall 2004)
- The Places I've Been: Outsiders, Exiles, Tourists (Yvette Aparicio, Fall 2001)
- Color, Culture, Class (Katya Gibel Mevorach, Fall 2008)
- Doing History: The Pullman Strike (Victoria Brown, Fall 2003)
- Humanities 101: The Ancient World (W.J. Cummins, Fall 2003)
- Americans in Paris: Through the Looking Glass (Jan B. Gross, Fall 2002)
- The Hero's Journey (Dennis Hughes, Fall 2003)
- Images of Africa (Kathy Jacobson, Fall 2002)
- The Middle East in the Popular Imagination (Kathy Kamp, Fall 2009)
- Narrative and Identity (Johanna Meehan, Fall 2004)
- The Making of Human Rights (Elizabeth Prevost, Fall 2008)
- Movement, Feeling, Who We Are (Liz Queathem, Fall 2009)
- Biotechnology: Bountiful Harvest or Bitter Harvest? (Diane Robertson, Fall 2008)
- NO LIMITS? (Monty Roper, Fall 2009)
- Marx, Nietzsche, Freud: The Foundations of Cultural Criticism (Alan Schrift, Fall 2009)
- Emotion and Cognition (Laura Sinnett, Fall 2004)
- Humanities I: The Ancient Greek World (Paula Smith, Fall 2004)
- Painting Modernity (Susan Strauber, Fall 2004)
- Music in the Balance of Power (Roger Vetter, Fall 2002)
- Primitive Skills in the Modern World (John Whittaker, Fall 2003)
Tutorial Faculty Syllabi (on the web)
- Russia in Revolution (Todd Armstrong, Fall 2001)
- We Are What We Eat: Food, Culture, and Identity in Literature and Film (Jin Feng, Fall 2002)
- Utopia and Revolution in Russia and the United States (Kelly Herold, Fall 2000)
- Freedom (Daniel Kaiser, Fall 2003)
- Exploitation and Subversion: The Politics of Popular Culture (Jean Ketter, Fall 2003)
- American Memorials and the Politics of Memory (Sarah J. Purcell, Fall 2004)
- Owning the Intangible: Possession, Theft, and (Mis)Appropriation of Ideas (Sam Rebelsky, Fall 2010)
- Darwin's Legacy in the Twentieth Century and Beyond (John Rommereim, Fall 2000)
- Degradation and Development in Tropical Forests (Monty Roper, Fall 2003)
- The Origins of Capitalism (Pablo Silva, Fall 2009)
- Free software, free culture (John Stone, Fall 2009)
- Computers: Facts, Misconceptions, and Ethical Issues (Henry Walker, Fall 2008)
